Use 8Tracks outside the US / Canada

In February 8Tracks announced a change in their international streaming. Users from outside the US and Canada can no longer stream music from 8tracks.com directly. Instead 8Tracks offers the option to play via Youtube. I experienced that the Youtube option did not really work well and found that you can still stream from the 8tracks.com website.

When you browse 8tracks.com, some playlist still play directly from 8Tracks while others show the “play via Youtube” option. If you look close enough you can see that playlists only work when they end with “?play=1” at the end.

I made a little bookmarklet that lets you easily play all the 8Tracks playlists by changing the last part of the url automatically. Drag thepPlay icon below to your bookmarks bar. Then, when you’re on an 8tracks.com playlist you want to play, simply click on it.

If you can’t drag the play icon to your bookmarks bar, right click on it and choose to make a new bookmark. You can als copy the code below and make a new bookmark.